单词 | alpine marmot |
释义 | > as lemmasAlpine marmot Alpine marmot n. a large marmot, Marmota marmota, which inhabits high-altitude grassland in the Alps and other mountainous areas of Central Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > genus Marmota > marmota marmota (marmot) mouse of the mountain?1583 mountain-mouse1599 marmottane1601 Alpine mouse1607 marmot1607 mountain rat1659 Alpine marmot1771 1771 T. Pennant Synopsis Quadrupeds 268 Marmot... Alpine. Mus Alpinus, Plinii. 1780 W. Smellie tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular IV. 339 (heading) Alpine marmot. 1880 St. Nicholas Feb. 291/1 The little Alpine marmots burrow in the mountain slopes near the region of perpetual snow. 1953 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 83 65 Younger Loess I... Fauna scarce, but comprising Alpine marmot and Spermophilus rufescens, both characteristic of cold steppe conditions. 2004 Independent 24 July 28/4 The Alpine marmot, a rodent which faced extinction in the region [sc. the Pyrenees], has also been successfully reintroduced. < as lemmas |
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